Quotes About Achievement

Outliers are those who have been given opportunities — and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.

Our ability to succeed at what we do is powerfully bound up with where we're from, and being a good pilot and coming from a high–power distance culture is a difficult mix.

our notion that it is the best and the brightest who effortlessly rise to the top is much too simplistic.

By no stretch of the imagination or of standards of genius," Sorokin concluded, "is the 'gifted group' as a whole 'gifted.' " By the time Terman came out with his fourth volume of Genetic Studies of Genius, the word "genius" had all but vanished. "We have seen," Terman concluded, with more than a touch of disappointment, "that intellect and achievement are far from perfectly correlated.

surely something to that. But it wasn't just the children of rabbis who went to law school. It was the children of garment workers. And their critical advantage in climbing the professional ladder

manuscript. Happily, they complied, and Outliers is infinitely

The striking thing about Ericsson's study is that he and his colleagues couldn't find any "naturals," musicians who floated effortlessly to the top while practicing a fraction of the time

con trabajo duro, planificación sabia e independencia o cooperación con un pequeño grupo, la recompensa es sólo cuestión de tiempo».

because there is complexity, autonomy, and a relationship between effort and reward in doing creative work

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there is something profoundly wrong with the way we make sense of success.

a lesson crucial to those who wanted to tackle the upper reaches of a profession like law or medicine: if you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires (151).

we grew up. The culture we belong to and the legacies passed down by our forebears shape the patterns of our achievement in ways we cannot begin to imagine. It's not

Outliers are those who have been given opportunities — and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them. For

a lesson crucial to those who wanted to tackle the upper reaches of a profession like law or medicine: if you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires.

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Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and oppor­tunities

Go to any Western college campus and you'll find that Asian students have a reputation for being in the library long after everyone else has left. Sometimes people of Asian background get offended when their culture is described this way, because they think that the stereotype is being used as a form of disparagement. But a belief in work ought to be a thing of beauty.

what's interesting about that list? Of the seventy-five names, an astonishing fourteen

Because we so profoundly personalize success, we miss opportunities to lift others onto the top rung. We make rules that frustrate achievement. We prematurely write off people as failures.

The standard immigrant-entrepreneur story is about the redemptive power of grit and ingenuity.

Malcolm Gladwell

His story was almost word for word the same as Caroline Sack's, and hearing it a second time made it plain how remarkable the achievement of the Impressionists really was. They were artistic geniuses. But they were also possessed of a rare wisdom about the world. They were capable of looking at what the rest of us thought of as a great advantage, and seeing it for what it really was. Monet, Degas, Cezanne, Renoir, and Pissarro would have gone to their second choice.

Hard work is a prison only if it does not have meaning